Hoaxes, Scams, Viruses, Trojans and Security Issues

 

Crime Prevention, Investigation, and the Internet

 

Local to Houston Texas:

Crime Prevention, Investigation, and the Internet  http://rupd.rice.edu/cpbookmarks.html 

 

 

 

Ask The Expert: Meet the Security Experts of:      Search Security / techtarget

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/ateExpertsBios/0,289621,sid14,00.html 

    Ask the Experts is the place to get your technical and implementation questions answered by some of the leading authorities in the security  field.  Our experts have been chosen by our editorial team for their knowledge of specific technology areas.  To get a faster response, please be as clear and specific as possible when you state your question.  Questions are answered on a continual basis, and we try to answer as many as possible. If you don't hear back from us in a week, consider posting your question in our forums.

Infragard (must be a member to access)

www.infragard.org

Infragard - public website

www.infragard.net

Infragard - Houston Chapter (must be a member to access)

www.infragardhouston.org

 

Business Continuity Links and resources

http://www.business-continuity-online.com/Content/Pages/Training.aspx

http://www.disasterrecoveryforum.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=9

http://www.idsemergencymanagement.com/emergency_management/us/Business_Continuity/Business_Continuity_Management/2_0/g_supplier.html

http://www.idsemergencymanagement.com/

http://www.contingencynow.com/training.htm

http://www.strohlsystems.com/Training/default.asp

http://www.bfi.co.uk/continuity.htm

http://www.mile2.com/Disaster_Recovery_and_Business_Continuity_Planning_Training.html

http://www.compinfo-center.com/itman/business_continuity.htm

http://www.sorm.state.tx.us/Risk_Management/Business_Continuity/init_overview.php

http://www.setfocus.com/Train/Courses/CourseListing.aspx?CourseNum=7019

http://www.sun.com/service/businesscontinuity/

http://www.ocipep.gc.ca/info_pro/self_help_ad/general/busi_cont_e.asp

www.BusinessContingency.com

 

 

Security Links and resources

http://www.surveillance-video.com/espionage-july-2009.html

http://www.ibct.com/

http://www.sentryx.com/

http://www.cyrusone.com/newsletter/cyrusone/landing/index.html

http://www.yourwindow.to/

http://www.rothstein.com/drjbooks/drj746.htm

http://www.rothstein.com/

http://www.londonprepared.gov.uk/index.htm

http://www.londonprepared.gov.uk/business/businesscont/index.htm

http://www.insight.co.uk/training/tc_understandingpas56.htm

http://www.binomial.com/

http://www.infosyssec.net/infosyssec/buscon1.htm

http://www.ffiec.gov/ffiecinfobase/booklets/bcp/bps_06_proc_other.html

http://www.2c-consulting.com/training.htm

http://www.lwgconsulting.com

http://www.bfi.co.uk/continuitytraining.htm

http://www.automataservices.com/training.htm

http://www.niser.org.my/training/bcp.html

http://www.htinstitute.com/corp_view.asp?cid=126

http://www.survive.com/

http://www.christianet.com/business/businesstraining.htm

http://www.marsh.com.au/index.htm

http://www.theiia.org/itaudit/?fuseaction=catref&catid=8

http://www.kingswell.net/

 

Internet Based Hoaxes/Scams

 

http://vmyths.com/        Welcome To Vmyths.com

Learn about com­puter virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hys­teria, and the impli­ca­tions if you be­lieve in them. You can also search a list of com­puter virus hoaxes & virus hys­teria from A to Z.

 

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/        Welcome to the CIAC Hoax Pages
Interspersed among the junk mail and spam that fills our Internet e-mail boxes are dire warnings about devastating new viruses, Trojans that eat the heart out of your system, and malicious software that can steal the computer right off your desk.

 

Don't Spread that Hoax!    http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/

Hoax News    http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm

Hoax News    http://www.cknow.com/kumite.htm

Security Responses Hoax's    http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

The Urban Legends passed     http://www.urbanlegends.com/

http://www.scambusters.org/

http://www.truthorfiction.com/

http://hoaxinfo.com/  

 

Internet registsration

Internic http://www.internic.net/whois.html   http://www.networkassociates.com/us/index.asp

 

Network Solutions http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois

 

 

Anti-Virus-Junk-Spam  Sites

Antigen             http://www.sybari.com/home/

F-Secure          http://www.datafellows.com/

McAfee             http://software.mcafee.com/

FBI / CSI           http://www.gocsi.com/

Panda               http://www.pandasoftware.com 

Symantec         http://www.symantec.com/

Sophos             http://www.sophos.com/

Proland             http://www.pspl.com/

http://www.cloudmark.com/

http://www.junkbusters.com/

Guidescope        http://www.guidescope.com/home/

http://www.yesmail.com/

 

Network Management

http://www.networkcomputing.com/

 

 

 

Bandwidth Test Sites

 

http://www.dslresults.com  

Welcome to: DSL Results.com   Are you in the market for broadband service in your area? You have came to the right place! With our tools and helpful links, you will be on your way to selecting from only PREFERRED DSL PROVIDERS.

RoadRunner cable 

 

 

Firewalls / Security / Anti-Spyware / Anti-Malware

 

BlackICE(tm)            http://blackice.iss.net/index.php

Zone Alarm               http://www.zonelabs.com/

Gibson Reserach    

Ad-Aware                  http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

CleanSweep (Symantec/Norton)             http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ncs/

http://www.webtrends.com/products/wsa/default.htm

http://www.cert.org/vul_notes/index.html

Pretty Good Privacy      http://www.pgp.com/

MIT      http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html

http://www.keyserver.net/  (PGP Key Server)

http://www.philzimmermann.com/

http://csrc.nist.gov/ 

http://www.us-cert.gov/

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/ 

http://www.nsa.gov/

http://www.surasoft.com/

http://www.forensics-intl.com/intro.html

 

 

 

Linux                http://www.gnupg.org/

Homeland Security        www.terrorism.com       

www.w00w00.org  Do the w00 (w00w00.mp3) w00w00, with 30+ active participants, is currently the largest non-profit security team in the world (there are no "members").

Computer Incident Advisory Capability - www.ciac.org/ciac
FTC Consumer Complaint Form https://rn.ftc.gov/pls/dod/wsolcq$.startup?Z_ORG_CODE=PU01 
Also report  Terrorist activity at the IFCC.

Internet Fraud - www.fraud.org

 

http://www.zdelete.com/            The purpose of Active@ ZDelete software is to protect your privacy by preventing undesirable people to access private deleted data against your will.

http://www.killdisk.com/

http://www.finaldata.com/

 

E-Mail Scanning Systems

http://www.messagelabs.com/

Filter SPAM locally by targeting it into "folders" in Outlook.  http://popfile.sourceforge.net/

Privacy/Anon Web Sites

Electronic Frontier Foundation     http://www.eff.org/

http://privacy.net/

http://www.surfsecret.com/

Net Privacy         http://inetprivacy.com/

http://netsecurity.about.com/compute/netsecurity/cs/privacyissues/index.htm

 

 

Keystroke Monitors

http://www.keykatcher.com/index.htm  (hardware)

http://www.keyghost.com  (hardware)

http://www.keylogger.com/index.htm  (hardware)

http://www.spectorsoft.com  (software)

http://www.winwhatwhere.com/  (software)

http://www.computer-monitoring.com/index.html

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?keywords=a289-

 

 

 

ESI Security Training Academy

IAPPS - Executive Protection Associates  

IASCP - International Association For Counterterrorism and Security Professionals  

National Security Agency (NSA)

Department of State

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Home Page

FBI Espionage, Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Awareness

IntelWeb What's New in Intelligence

Mossad - Israels Secret Intelligence Agency

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY - Geology and Mapping Resources

United States Department of Justice Home Page

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Federal Protective Services

Fish and Wildlife Service

NATO Gopher

SACLANT Undersea Research Centre

German Armed Forces University - Hamburg

German Armed Forces University - Muenchen

The Boeing Company

Raytheon

Lockheed-Martin

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space

Lockheed Austin

Rockwell International Corporation

TRW

United Technologies 

Journal of Electronic Defense

E-Systems

Lockheed-Sanders

Booz Allen and Hamilton

Westinghouse

Rohde and Schwarz

Siemens Corporation

AAI Corporation

Harris Corporation, RF Communications Division

Wandel and Goltermann

Syracuse Research Corporation

AT&T Federal Systems Advanced

Autometric, Inc.

California Microwave, Inc.

CAS, Inc.

Harris Corporation, Electronic Systems Sector

Litton Industries, Inc.

SAIC

Silicon Graphics Computer Systems

SRI International

Sun Microsystem Federal, Inc.

The Counter-Terrorism Page

Analyzing Terrorists

IntelWeb What's New

Weapons News Digests

50 USC Sec. 403-4 (01/24/94): DCI Authorities

National Security Institute - Resources

U.S. Intelligence Agencies - National Counterintelligence Center (NCC)

US DOD Gopher Sites

Military Sciences and Defense

Real Time Support for the Warrior

434th Military Intelligence Detachment (Strategic)

The Army HomePage Subject Area Index - H

Intelligence and Electronic Warfare

US Army - Foreign Intelligence Agencies

US State Dept: Report by Country

US CIA: Report by Country

IntelWeb: Intelligence Communities by Country

The Unofficial Communications Security Establishment Webpage

Indonesia

[Israel]

Palestinian Intelligence Community

Philippines

WLR Cassidy and Associates - SE Asia

USSR - The Third World Countries and US

Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit

ESPIONAGE - publications

tempest

CIABASE On-line

NAMEBASE On-Line! telnet gateway required. Log in as "namebase"

A-albionic Research

Jane's War Machine Information

The Consortium - Investigative Reports

Directory of Wiretap

The Foreign Correspondent: FTP

Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development

IntelWeb - The WWW Site of Intelligence Watch Report

WWW Rule of Law Online

Political Investigations

Technical Services Agency

OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS, Inc.

Russian Space Science

War Crime Laws

General info

Armament Technology

GERM WARFARE

Bombs 'n' Bullets

Somers & Associates

IPN - Information Professionals Network

The Spy Depot

Apex Home Page

HI TECH Securities Services

Bodyguard

TR Information Services

Detective Information Network

Continental Investigative Service

The Integrity Center Inc.: Objective risk management information

LOYOLA HOMEPAGE ON STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE

Intelligence Resources

MILNET: Open Source Military Information Database

CovertAction Quarterly

The SHADOW

WAR ZONE

Sarajevo Pipeline - Creating free dialog with people in the regions of the former Yugoslavia, and Zines

Counter-Terrorism Sites

New York City Airport Guide

Center for National Security Studies

FAA Information Services via World Wide Web

Per National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) Standard DoD 5220.22-M

http://www.dss.mil/isec/nispom.htm

 

http://www.cerberussystems.com/default.htm

http://www.webroot.com/                       Eraser 5.5.2      (Source code is available)

http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/

 

 

National Do Not Call Registry      http://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx 

 

http://www.thefreesite.com/Anonymous_Freebies/

 

The heart of darkness:               https://www.microsoft.com/technet/default.asp

 

 

2600 Computer Security - Computer and Internet Security Resource. With news, links, and tools.

C4I.org - Comprehensive security portal offering computer security information for governments and corporations.

Canada's Export Controls - Summary of Canada's export controls on cryptographic software

Center for INFOSEC Studies and Research - Official US Navy Site providing information, publications and news on general security issues.

CERIAS Hotlist - The CCERIAS hotlist is the most comprehensive security site on the WWW, covering all aspects of security.

Code-Storm - Computer programming and security information.

comp.security Newsgroup FAQs - Security related FAQ covering a variety of subjects

Computer Security Book List - Provides a list of security books with their online availability and short review, currently has 105 books and growing.

CriticalSecurity.com - Computer security resources including free security planning templates and whitepapers.

DSH - Commercial and GSA reseller for Arbor Networks, Entercept, Netforensics and Solsoft.

e-TimeStamp - Commercial TimeStamping service that provides digital third-party witness of any file on a computer system.

eSecurityOnline, LLC - Offering security and eBusiness professionals with immediate access to one of the industry¹s most complete security-related information resources.

Forensic-computing.co.uk - Provides links to organisations involved in one or more aspects of forensic computing.

General Computer Security forum at Tek-Tips - General Computer Security technical support forums and mutual help system for computer professionals. Selling and recruiting forbidden.

Information Security Conference 2003 - Provides information on the sixth year of this international conference to be held in October. Call for papers, venue and registration details.

InfoSysSec - Computer, network and information security resource portal. Meta index of security resources maintained by students of Algonquin College.

IntoIT - The journal of the INTOSAI EDP Audit Committee. Its main focuses are on information systems auditing, IT performance auditing, and IT support for auditing.

ISSA - International Systems Security Association - An international non-profit organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides education forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities.

IT Baseline Protection Manual - Standard security safeguards for Unix, Novell, Windows NT, Firewalls, PBX, Databases, Email, ITSEC Management, Infrastructure, and ISDN.

Kruse Security Advisement - Many security topics in English and Danish.

LockDown - Home Computer Security Centre - Security information and free advice for home computer computer users about choosing passwords, encryption, steganography and securing your PC.

North Texas Chapter ISSA - The Dallas and Fort Worth chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).

Novell Security Services - Information about Novell's network security solutions.

O'Reilly Security Center - O'Reilly is a leader in technical and computer book documentation for Security.

RCMP Technical Security Branch - Canadian organization dedicated to providing federal government clients with a full range of professional physical and information technology security services and police forces with high technology forensic services.

Ronald L. Rivest's Cryptography and Security - Provides links to cryptography and security sites.

Security Forum - Security Forum was created to bring together industry professionals to present and discuss information security challenges and solutions.

Security Forums Dot Com - UK-based forum for discussions about all aspects of computer security.

Security Information Directory and Hacking Portal - Comprehensive directory of security and hacking articles, links, downloads, FAQs, tools, utilities, virus, anti-virus, trojans, cellular, phreaking, physical security, tutorials, telecommunications, and daily security news.

Security.tao.ca - Resources and information on securing your internet transactions and computer data.

SecurityConfig.com - Providing security software and news for both Windows and Linux.

SecuritySearch - Industry news, security headlines and books as well as various security-related communities.

SecurityWatch.com - Global e-security knowledge portal includes security news, technical advice, vulnerability database, hacking/virus info, industry analysis, events calendar, careers, and related resources.

Technical Info - Provides plain language technical papers on security and securing orgnaisations.

The Encyclopedia of Computer Security - A complete one-source location for information security news, products, whitepapers, events, and definitions requires the use of JavaScript for navigation and display purposes.

The Freefire Project - Provides information about open source security software.

The Peon's Guide To Secure System Development - A short, hard-hitting paper which puts forth and argues for various basic principles which must be understood by all programmers in order to make systems secure.

The Shmoo Group - Privacy, crypto, and security tools and resources with daily news updates.

CERIAS - Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security  - University center for multidisciplinary research and education in areas of information security. Provides hotlist covering all aspects of security.

CERT Coordination Center  - The CERT Coordination Center studies Internet security vulnerabilities, provides incident response services to sites that have been the victims of attack, publishes a variety of security alerts, researches security and survivability in wide-area-networked computing, and develops information to help you improve security at your site.

InfoSysSec.com

SecurityForumX.com

SecurityChatroomX.com

SecurityNewsPortal.com

HomelandSecurityX.com

SecurityTraq.com

Security Directory

Free Security Magazines and Whitepapers